I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.